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The AMD Radeon R9 285 Thread

Geeman1979 said:
Are you on commission for these cards :p
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Darujhistan said:
He must be, it's the GPU equivalent of selling doors door to door!

:D
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No commission but I do think these cards are better than some posters are giving them credit for.:)

I think after a few weeks their price will reflect their worth and people will look at them in a better light when all the 280s and 280Xs are gone.

Does anyone know if these 285s can do quadfire.:D
 
David Bisset said:
I'm surprised how much trouble people have understanding this. If 'cheaping out' on the RAM means people can enjoy good performance at a lower price point then I'm all for it. I'm still not impressed by the advertising suggesting these cards for 4k gaming, but that doesn't make the card bad in the slightest, most people are still on 1080p for which it looks fine.
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For 4K these cards are an absolute non starter.
 
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VisionTek Introduces Its Radeon R9 285 Graphics Card

VisionTek Products LLC, a leading manufacturer of award-winning, high-performance upgrades and accessories for PCs and Macs, today announced the VisionTek Radeon R9 285 graphics card. The new, best-in-class card features up to 945 MHz clock speed, 2 GB GDDR5 RAM, support for 4K Ultra HD 4K gaming, realistic audio, and 3DMark Fire Strike scores that beat the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760.

Designed For Serious PC Gamers
Specifically designed to enable PC gamers to play the most demanding games at maximum detail better than any card in its class, the VisionTek Radeon R9 285 is loaded with the latest technology advancements in Graphics Core Next Architecture, including AMD Eyefinity Technology, DirectX 12, and Mantle support.


Best-in-Class: Outperforms GTX 760
To compare the VisionTek Radeon R9 285 to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 3DMark Fire Strike, the world's most popular gaming benchmarking tool, was used to determine each card's overall score in two demanding settings, Performance and Extreme. In both instances, the VisionTek Radeon R9 285 significantly outperformed the competition:

3DMark Fire Strike Performance Setting Overall Score:•R9 285: 7066
•GeForce GTX 760: 5650
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme Setting Overall Score:•R9 285: 3513
•GeForce GTX 760: 2774
See What You've Been Missing with 4K Resolution
The VisionTek R9 285 supports 4K Ultra HD 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution, which is 4x the resolution of 1080p. Typically, configuring a graphics card for use with a high resolution monitor must be done manually. However, AMD's Catalyst Graphics Drivers will perform automatic "plug and play" configuration of supported 4K Ultra HD displays. Further simplifying the ability to use 4K displays is the card's use of AMD Eyefinity technology which can span multiple monitors into one large panoramic display.

Hear What You've Been Missing with TrueAudio
With an onboard audio processing chip powering AMD's TrueAudio technology, the VisionTek R9 285 can deliver accurate 3D surround sound within games and special audio effects like reverbs and room simulations while reducing CPU load. Now you can hear more real-time voices and situational sounds in-game with any and all audio hardware already owned.

Available Immediately and Lifetime Warranty Backed
The $249.99 MSRP VisionTek Radeon R9 285, available immediately at www.visiontek.com, comes backed by a lifetime warranty. The new graphics card's specification are as follows:•Video Memory: 2 GB GDDR5
•Memory Interface: 256-bit
•DirectX Support: 12
•Bus Standard: PCI Express 3.0 x16
•Core Speed: Up to 945MHz
•Memory Speed: 1375 MHz (176GB/s bandwidth)
•Stream Processors/Shading Units: 1792
•Compute Units: 28
•Compute Performance: 3,226 GFLOPS
•Supported Outputs:
(1) Dual link DVI-D connector
(1) Dual link DVI-I connector (VGA supported with included DVI to VGA adapter)
(1) HDMI connector (supports video and audio)
(1) DisplayPort connector
•Number of Monitors Supported: Four
•Warranty: Limited Lifetime
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204820/visiontek-introduces-its-radeon-r9-285-graphics-card.html
 
XFX Rolls Out its Radeon R9 285 Double Dissipation Graphics Card

XFX joined the Radeon R9 285 launch party with its compact R9 285 Double Dissipation graphics card. Built on an black, custom-design, matte-finish PCB, XFX' card features a lightweight version of its twin-fan cooling solution, which has been featured on its older performance-segment cards, such as the R9 270X. The cooler features a dense aluminium fin stack, to which heat is fed by four 6 mm thick copper heat pipes, which is then ventilated by a pair of 80 mm spinners. The card sticks to AMD reference clock speeds of 918 MHz core, and 5.50 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. Based on the 28 nm "Tonga" silicon, the R9 285 features 1,792 Graphics CoreNext 1.2 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory on this card. Expect it to be priced at US $249.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204818/xfx-rolls-out-its-radeon-r9-285-double-dissipation-graphics-card.html
 
NVidia responds.:)

NVIDIA Tweaking GeForce GTX 770 Price to Compete with R9 285

NVIDIA's response to AMD Radeon R9 285 isn't major (a new product launch). The company believes it already has the products out there to take on it. The company is likely working with add-in card partners, and retailers, to tweak pricing of its performance-segment GeForce GTX 770 2GB, bringing its price around the US $275 mark, $25 more than the cheapest R9 285, and roughly the same price as factory-overclocked ones. It's pricing is down from the $325 point it was hovering over.

The GTX 770 costs roughly the same as the GTX 760, for NVIDIA to sell, with the former only imposing slightly higher VRM requirements. Our tests show that the GTX 770 still ends up with better energy efficiency figures than the R9 285. Based on the 28 nm "GK104" silicon, the GTX 770 packs 1,536 CUDA cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/204863/nvidia-tweaking-geforce-gtx-770-price-to-compete-with-r9-285.html
 
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For a mid range card I think the 285 is a quality item and it is the only card according to it's description that fully supports DX12.

The point is there is a need for mid range cards and neither NV or AMD can afford to stop making them just because they are no longer as fast as the new top of the range cards.

From what I have learnt about the 285 I would rather buy one than a GTX 770 or 280X as the new 285 is more future proofed with DX12 and better memory management.
 
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